Chapter 1067: The Faces of the Dead
Generally speaking, it is not easy to pick up leaks on the black market. Not to mention the owners of those stores who handle all kinds of goods all year round, and the counterfeiting alone can deceive ordinary customers.
I have to say that it would be too much of a fool's dream for an uninformed little girl like Pansy to pick up some bargains here.
Unless...... It's just that someone secretly has another purpose, specifically wanting her to get some more "special" benefits.
When Pansy came out of the "Sniffer King's Collection", she had an extra book with a silver-rimmed cover in her hand.
The book was only two palms in size, and she found it in the grocery cabinet in the store.
The cabinet was filled with all sorts of things that had been judged to be of little value—polished bronze nameplates, new glass ornaments, or gold-plated Muggle ornaments.
And because although the cover of this suspected magic book is shiny silver, it is actually just a hardcover storybook, which is the most typical kind of thing that "sniffs and likes but doesn't sell for much".
So, too, it was lost in the possession by the owner of the collection store, at least on the surface.
However, Pansy, who happened to have a lot of time, went back and forth through the book, and coincidentally found that the text on one of the pages clearly did not belong to the storybook.
"It's like...... Is it an ancient magical ritual? ”
Suddenly, Pansy's mind flashed such a guess.
Seriously, the magical ritual was horrific and even involved a rather brutal death. Pansy was scared to break out in a cold sweat when she first read it in the collection store.
But when she saw the end of the page saying that if she followed the above method, she would gain more powerful magical talents, Pansy's heart almost stopped in shock.
"Is this true?"
After glancing as quietly as she could over the grocery cabinet, she confirmed the price tag—only five gold galleons, at least twice as expensive as a real magic book, but not an unacceptable price.
Even if their Parkinson's family is not financially rich, it is relative, but her family's background is not as thin as the Weasleys.
"Earned!"
If nothing else, buying this book is definitely a profit and not a loss...... At that point in time, Pansy was very sure of her judgment.
So Pansy was clever enough to tell the owner of the collection store that she liked the book's delicate style, and then she bought the storybook with the mystery in it.
However, she didn't know that she still lost in the end, and it wasn't something as superficial as Jin Gallon.
……
After buying the book that day, Pansy didn't talk to the family, except to mention that it was an old storybook that had been bought for a few silver coins.
In fact, even she herself hadn't confirmed her mind yet, and she didn't know what to do with the potion recipes and magic rituals written on the page.
A few days later, the somewhat long Christmas holiday for wizards in the British wizarding world finally came to an end. Pansy, on the other hand, got on the Hogwarts Express train with her mother and staggered back to school.
She didn't touch the book again for a few days, just left it in the bookcase in her room. And before returning to school, he also told himself several times that he should not take it to Hogwarts Castle.
And the reason for this is nothing else - most wizards of pure-blood families are not afraid of dark magic, she just thinks that there are obviously many hidden dangers in bringing dark magic to school.
What's more, that extremely powerful and intelligent Macca McClain is taught in school! She really couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't be discovered by that guy who seemed to know what was going on.
But in the end, Pansy couldn't suppress the contradiction of longing and fear, and stuffed it into her suitcase just before leaving the room to get ready to go out.
The night Pansy arrived at Hogwarts, she was undoubtedly uneasy.
In the girls' dormitory in Slytherin, she hadn't slept well for almost the whole night, and had been worrying about whether the book in the suitcase under the bed would be discovered.
Yes, could the page with the terrible magical rituals leave some very hidden traces of dark magic, and although she couldn't detect it, maybe Marca McKellen would notice?
Therefore, it was not until breakfast time that the class officially began the next day, when Professor McGonagall personally announced the news of McLean's temporary departure, Pansy couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
It was probably the absence of Maca at Hogwarts that made Pansy's heart relax a lot. At first, she was still terrified by the horror of the magical ritual, but now the feeling was much less, and the longing took over her mind again.
After a few more days of hesitation, the idea of taking the place of his brother Perseth and taking on the burden of the family for him gradually suppressed the fear in his heart.
A determination came to her mind one day in Potions class.
Homicide?
No, it's not until the point where you have to think about that...... The first thing she had to do was to follow the recipe and steps on the pages of the book to prepare the special potion that was a prerequisite for it.
At this point, it must be said that as a Slytherin prefect, Pansy's academic performance is not bad. She was inferior to her brother in Charms and Transfiguration, but not inferior in Potions.
You must know that the sixth-grade students in the advanced course are actually stronger than many people in a single subject.
However, the potions described on the page were also quite difficult, and she tried and failed many times, and at one point almost gave up because she felt that she could not do it.
She had to admit that the moment she was about to choose to give up, she was actually secretly relieved subconsciously.
Unfortunately, from the moment she wanted to try to make potions, a gambler-like desire had already become a devil in her heart.
The only difference from a real gambler is that what she wants to gamble on is an expectation for the future.
If she can't let it go, she has to go ahead - she has to finish the potion and get a potential that will make the vast majority of people look up to it. This will be her capital to revive the family as a witch in the future!
"Well, maybe there's more...... For example, a stunning gaze from Draco? ”
Pansy knew all too well about the Malfoy family's turmoil, and she even learned from her parents about Draco's own time at home.
And because Draco's father, Lucius Malfoy, was sentenced to Azkaban, the Malfoy family has lost its previous prominence, and even many cooperating forces have made a cold treatment with it one by one to temporarily terminate contact.
If Pansy Parkinson, who was before he decided to start refining medicine, maybe he would have completely let go of the boy whose family was gradually declining, right?
However, Pansy, who has the idea of "being a strong woman", can put her affection in the first place in her marriage.
She wants to free her brother's pressure, she wants to revitalize the Parkinson's family, and she wants to win Draco's love! If you think about it, not only are these three not in conflict, but they complement each other, don't they?
But Pansy understands that her desires must be based on real abilities.
It is often said that once you have a goal, you will be motivated; The more enticing the goal, the more motivated that person will be. Pansy's heart began to be affected by the desire that kept piling up, and she became persistent and crazy.
After nearly half a month of repeated refining potions, the lucky girl seems to have finally stood behind Pansy - she succeeded with a hint of luck!
However, Pansy, who had successfully prepared the potion, felt a little chill in her heart while being extremely excited. And she also understood that the chill was undoubtedly due to the subsequent ritual steps on the page.
"If ......"
"If only to kill a Muggle ......"
"No, it's killing a Muggle condemned prisoner...... Shouldn't it be a problem, right? ”
Such repeated refinement of the standard exposes Pansy's struggle.
Yes, she is an arrogant, unobtrusive Slytherin type, she can take pleasure in insulting other "lowly" classmates, and she likes to kick and punch the house-elves in her home at will.
Even she knows that Pansy Parkinson is not a good man and a woman.
But in the end, no matter how bitter she is, she is not yet able to calmly kill a living person who has no grudges or grudges.
Not to mention, the way of killing in that ritual is still ...... It's terrifying.
"Kill, kill?"
For days, Pansy was awakened in the middle of the night by a nightmare - she hadn't really killed anyone.
……
"So, a Muggle hangman?"
In Snape's office, Maca and Pansy sat facing each other, while Snape, the owner of the room, reclined at his desk not far away.
Pansy pursed her lips in the face of this Maca's faint questioning, her tangled fingers turning pale from too much force.
It took a long time for her to slowly nod her head without saying a word.
It had already taken her too much effort to tell the story just now, and now she really didn't want to say a word anymore.
Seeing this, Maca turned her head and glanced at Snape for a moment—both of them were people who had witnessed death and given it with their own hands, and they knew both of Pansy's feelings at the moment.
"So," asked Marka, turning back suddenly, coldly, "the man's face when he died...... You must remember it better than your brother's face, right? ”
"No—"
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